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Wealth was the thing. CHOAM was the key to wealth, each noble House dipping from the company’s coffers whatever it could under the power of the directorships. Those CHOAM directorships—they were the real evidence of political power in the Imperium, passing with the shifts of voting strength within the Landsraad as it balanced itself against the Emp
... See moreFrank Herbert • Dune: The inspiration for the blockbuster film (The Dune Sequence Book 1)
Sietch: a meeting place in time of danger.
Frank Herbert • Dune: The inspiration for the blockbuster film (The Dune Sequence Book 1)
They’ll call me…Muad’Dib, ‘The One Who Points the Way.’ Yes…that’s what they’ll call me.”
Frank Herbert • Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Collection: Books 1-3
She was too valuable to kill, and if he abducted any of her descendants, she would no doubt goad him into killing her. But once she was isolated in America with an infant to care for, she would learn submissiveness.
Octavia E. Butler • Wild Seed (The Patternist Series Book 1)
when all the final scurrying about had reached
Frank Herbert • Dune
think the Harkonnens kept it as a punishment job, a threat hanging over their workers’ heads. Be good or you’ll be assigned to Old Maria.” Chuckles sounded around the table. Paul held himself apart from the humor, his attention focused on the projection and the question that filled his mind. He pointed to the image on the table, said: “Thufir, are
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